Today we woke up at 6:00. No one slept well due to the heat. The fact that it’s not even seven o’clock and its sweltering hot is not a good thing. I’ll have to monitor how much water I’m drinking closely. We hope to go 75 miles plus today. The terrain is suppose to look like yesterday so I don’t think it’ll be that bad. Thank goodness we are finally out of the Appalachian Mountains!
It’s now 9:10. I’m sitting in my tent. There’s a small chance of rain so I put my rain fly on. I don’t want to take a chance with the rain but I don’t know how I’m going to sleep when the inside of my tent feels like it’s slowly cooking me. Anyway let’s recap the day.

By 11:30 we had gone 40 miles. We were making excellent time however everyone needed to refuel and there wasn’t a gas station/grocery store in sight. I was just about to bonk when we passed one. They even had hot food! I got a cheeseburger, chips, a banana and ice cream for lunch. I think on any normal day the cheeseburger would have been not the best but to me it was perfect. We lingered in the gas station for too long though. Around 1 we decided to take a 4 mile detour to visit Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park. It apparently has the cabin where President Lincoln was born. It was surprising to learn it was actually just a random cabin that they think he was born in. It was still cool to visit. There was a small spring that you could walk down some steps to see. Next to the spring in the shade it was at least 30 degrees colder. We cooled off before hitting the road at 3. Brent didn’t go to the park and said the town we planned to stay didn’t have food so to eat before we got there. So about 10 miles later me stopped at a gas station and got a lot of snacks and stuff for dinner. Outside a guy asked us where we were all from. It turns out he was from Cheswold Delaware! He bought us a soda Kentucky was known for. I thought it tasted like watery ginger ale. So around 5 we headed out with 21 miles left. The first 10 only took 45 minutes but then the hills got steeper. They weren’t long and I could see the top of them so they didn’t compare to the Appalachians at all. But it was still the end of the day and hot so I was glad when we pulled off for the night. The scenery was really pretty and I need to set up my GoPro so I can capture some of the day. It’s really hard to take pictures because I have to stop We pass a lot of houses but my favorite is the one pictured below.

The place we are staying is listed as the Double L grocery store on my map. The owner Arron and Lucy are letting us camp in front of their store. They let us take showers and even made us a delicious spaghetti dinner. It was the perfect ending to an 80.2 mile day. I can’t express my thankfulness of everyone we’ve met. People have opener their homes to us and welcomed us with open arms. Arron was really interesting to talk to. He said he has hosted over 1000 cyclists and let us look through his guest book.

I remember the website of the cyclist we met yesterday. I haven’t looked at it yet but it’s:

Gotomgo.org